I have been in Mike's seat, answering the same questions after a major company f***up. Fortunately, no one was hurt or killed, but a $100 million in damages has to be answered for. It is scary, for the simple fact your livelihood will end if you answer wrong for either parties. I wish that on no one...
14:58 one thing you never want to hear on any seagoing vessel.... The Captain with a deer in the headlights look..... When you see that look you know they made the wrong man Captain but by that point it's too late
I have watched the dvd movie more than 15 times and I still ball my eyes out I am 53 year old male and this movie ripped me apart and months later I wanted to really know more than movie, showed and I cannot believe the people involved was not held responsible ... Like the end of movie it ... read at end of the movie with credits was pretty much thrown out of court.. This guy did his job above and be on and a very wonderful job by saving life's of others. Loved the movie but wish it was not true but is Was True Event's I really hope I've not said anything to offend others.. I promise you , I do not mean to have said anything here to hurt people .. my heart and prayers go to the 11 life's lost
Movie is no where near what actually happened. This man, Mike Williams, was NOT the big dog as appeared in the movie. I had several friends and family on Horizon and like Paul Harvey used to say, " Need to know the rest of the story." Check out the 27 page New York Times deposition online. Its an eye opener and tells the truth. Also, google search Randy Skidmore testimony about the incident.
Mike Jones it's what Hollywood does.... For example in the movie Sully the NTSB officers were portrayed as tough talking bad guys accusing Skiles and Sully of screwing up and threatening their careers when in reality the NTSB officials were very polite and very professional.... Hollywood just needed a bad guy so they created one.... For Deepwater Horizon the movie needed a hero and they couldn't tell the real stories of well over a hundred heroes so they likely combined some of the most amazing events from this incident and turned them into the story
Mike knows probably all of the rig because of the electrical wires and panels and that kinda stuff he also knew about a accident that happened 4 weeks before the accident happened it was the driller hit the lever that moved the the block up and down the bop/blowout preventer the 1 annulus compartment was closed and it broke the rubber seal and the next time they started drilling again the manager of the mud found some of the rubber seal coming out and he collected a hand full and brought it to the driller and he said don't worry about it so the bop/blowout preventer stoped sealing that was one of the main reasons why it happened that and the blind shear rams shattered and the blue pot was wired backwards and the battery was a little low
I was about to comment and say they should have gotten more BECAUSE they fucked up so badly , then saw the second comment.. he didn’t work for BP, he technically worked for Transocean, but it was BP that made the decisions on how to proceed with the well, so ultimately it’s their fault
I watched the movie of the Deep Water Horizon disaster. It was heartbreaking that showed what had happened to those 11 men who lost their lives that day.
It's too bad Mike still isn't in the oil and gas industry. His experience and knowledge could and would enhance safety and the execution, in a timely manner, of contingency or rescue plans.
What I’m gonna say is not to take away from how bad this whole thing was but unfortunately u see this everywhere now at every single job where these corporations are so money hungry that they decrease work forces and expand the the work load and don’t care and get away with it . It is now all about profit margins and 15% above last year and people Are expendable from this job to working at McDonald’s. It’s so sad and disgusting but this 💩 is true and this America and they don’t care until a tragedy happens .... pls call me a liar
I hope we can look at this as positively as possitively as possible since we cant fix it....i hope the 11 men went somewhere better....the environmental damage sucks but we still have plenty of other beaches....i love my tony
This is soo aggravating.. Mike’s testimony should have directly put Vidrine in jail , he literally said that Vidrine was the one to tell him not to turn the automatic setting on the IACS that would have turned off all sources of ignition, shut the engine intakes, turn on the fire sprinkler system, turn off the pumps, shut off the fans, automatically close the annulars and BOP .. and Vidrine was the one to suggest the “bladder effect” theory, ignore the 1400 psi on the drill line in favour of the results of 0PSI on the negative pressure test in the kill line , and he was the one to send the slumberger guys home without testing the integrity of the cement job.. Vidrine is 1000% responsible for this fuckup of a well
came straight after the movie had to investigate my self dammmnnn
I have been in Mike's seat, answering the same questions after a major company f***up.
Fortunately, no one was hurt or killed, but a $100 million in damages has to be answered for.
It is scary, for the simple fact your livelihood will end if you answer wrong for either parties.
I wish that on no one...
Damn, that's tragic!
I’m very sorry you had to go through that. I hope you and other employees filed a lawsuit, it’s sad that these companies put profits over people.
@Ted Young when you sign the contract to work for them, you sign that you cannot sue them...
Formosa Plastics Corp.
This man was put through a lot on that rig explosion.
came here after watching the movie
Me too :D
Same.
Me too
14:58 one thing you never want to hear on any seagoing vessel.... The Captain with a deer in the headlights look..... When you see that look you know they made the wrong man Captain but by that point it's too late
Mike Williams will go down in history as a man of honor and BP will be synonymous for evil corporate greed.
I have watched the dvd movie more than 15 times and I still ball my eyes out I am 53 year old male and this movie ripped me apart and months later I wanted to really know more than movie, showed and I cannot believe the people involved was not held responsible ... Like the end of movie it ... read at end of the movie with credits was pretty much thrown out of court.. This guy did his job above and be on and a very wonderful job by saving life's of others. Loved the movie but wish it was not true but is Was True Event's I really hope I've not said anything to offend others.. I promise you , I do not mean to have said anything here to hurt people .. my heart and prayers go to the 11 life's lost
Movie is no where near what actually happened. This man, Mike Williams, was NOT the big dog as appeared in the movie. I had several friends and family on Horizon and like Paul Harvey used to say, " Need to know the rest of the story." Check out the 27 page New York Times deposition online. Its an eye opener and tells the truth. Also, google search Randy Skidmore testimony about the incident.
Mike Jones the movie never is.... Mark Wahlberg is likely loosely based on Mike Williams as well as a conglomeration of several other individuals
Mike Jones it's what Hollywood does.... For example in the movie Sully the NTSB officers were portrayed as tough talking bad guys accusing Skiles and Sully of screwing up and threatening their careers when in reality the NTSB officials were very polite and very professional.... Hollywood just needed a bad guy so they created one.... For Deepwater Horizon the movie needed a hero and they couldn't tell the real stories of well over a hundred heroes so they likely combined some of the most amazing events from this incident and turned them into the story
The BP officials made for easy bad guys because they likely were actually unsafe if not reckless but certainly money driven people
Some guy!
I was deposed after my offshore platform was run over by a Greek dry freighter......No loss of life......You did awesome man....it sucks
Mike knows probably all of the rig because of the electrical wires and panels and that kinda stuff he also knew about a accident that happened 4 weeks before the accident happened it was the driller hit the lever that moved the the block up and down the bop/blowout preventer the 1 annulus compartment was closed and it broke the rubber seal and the next time they started drilling again the manager of the mud found some of the rubber seal coming out and he collected a hand full and brought it to the driller and he said don't worry about it so the bop/blowout preventer stoped sealing that was one of the main reasons why it happened that and the blind shear rams shattered and the blue pot was wired backwards and the battery was a little low
This should never have happened if BP did things the right way all the workers should have got a shit load of money for there mistakes
They did pay, BECAUSE of Mike's testimony. I know, because Mike is my brother
I was about to comment and say they should have gotten more BECAUSE they fucked up so badly , then saw the second comment.. he didn’t work for BP, he technically worked for Transocean, but it was BP that made the decisions on how to proceed with the well, so ultimately it’s their fault
I watched the movie of the Deep Water Horizon disaster. It was heartbreaking that showed what had happened to those 11 men who lost their lives that day.
It's too bad Mike still isn't in the oil and gas industry. His experience and knowledge could and would enhance safety and the execution, in a timely manner, of contingency or rescue plans.
Horn Dog2015 Ikr, but it's understandable why he didn't want to go back.
The Mike Williams in the movie was a composite character.
The real Mike Williams is not the person that Mark Wahlberg played.
Downlink please explain.
Typical grade “A” working chief technician. You can’t let people like this have too much authority or nothing would ever get done.
What I’m gonna say is not to take away from how bad this whole thing was but unfortunately u see this everywhere now at every single job where these corporations are so money hungry that they decrease work forces and expand the the work load and don’t care and get away with it . It is now all about profit margins and 15% above last year and people Are expendable from this job to working at McDonald’s. It’s so sad and disgusting but this 💩 is true and this America and they don’t care until a tragedy happens .... pls call me a liar
I hope we can look at this as positively as possitively as possible since we cant fix it....i hope the 11 men went somewhere better....the environmental damage sucks but we still have plenty of other beaches....i love my tony
Did I hear the first four answers to the first four questions correctly?
This is soo aggravating.. Mike’s testimony should have directly put Vidrine in jail , he literally said that Vidrine was the one to tell him not to turn the automatic setting on the IACS that would have turned off all sources of ignition, shut the engine intakes, turn on the fire sprinkler system, turn off the pumps, shut off the fans, automatically close the annulars and BOP .. and Vidrine was the one to suggest the “bladder effect” theory, ignore the 1400 psi on the drill line in favour of the results of 0PSI on the negative pressure test in the kill line , and he was the one to send the slumberger guys home without testing the integrity of the cement job.. Vidrine is 1000% responsible for this fuckup of a well
I wanted to know the answer to the question at the beginning of the movie.
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They were bypassed, to make people on the ship think they weren't important or serious, when infact they were.
never watched the movie....but can say mike williams knew his shit. kinda seemed like they were looking for someone to blame
Watch the movie you'll like it it gives you an idea of what they kinda went through
Fuck you. Watch the movie and speculate. You don't know what they went trough.
time for mike to work for the feds to stop further disters.